Fusion Drive how important is the Imac feature?

Question

Solid State Drives

Hello everyone, I asked myself to buy an imac, naturally I want to look at 5 years ahead so that the technology does not fail.
I would like to hear the opinion of those who have experienced this fusion drive feature. How "necessary" is this? Since the price tag varies significantly in contrast to the HDD.
PS I load the computer mainly with layout and design, I don’t play, as a prank I’m thinking of rolling and 3d (Maya)

Answer 1

In fact, this is a hard drive, in which part of the volume is ssd (small). All frequently executed tasks/files are cached there (as long as there is enough space). Due to this, these files open almost instantly.
I would take a regular one and change the drive to an SSD. The second one can be a normal hdd.

Answer 2

Fusion Drive is caching a slow HDD to a fast, low volume SSD.
As long as the data you are working with does not exceed the size of the cache, you will actually work with a fast SSD.
As soon as you exceed will work with a slow HDD.
If you have purely office work, you will most likely have all your data in the cache, it will work comfortably, almost the same as on an SSD. A little bit worse.
If you work with large amounts of data - layout, design, 3d, then the cache will be inefficient, and you will essentially work with a slow HDD all the time. In general, work will be slow and sad.

Answer 3

If you end up buying a computer with it, then be sure to read a short note about data recovery and disk replacement in Fusion Drive .
Compliance with the simple rules from it will allow you not to lose important data forever (this scenario, unfortunately, is the most common).
It will also be useful for other readers of the Toaster, because. Recently, Fusion Drive discs have been brought to us for restoration quite often. I do not exclude that this is due to the fact that the operating time of the components used by Apple has begun to come to an end.